Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-23
Odds aud Ends,

A cyclone 100 yards wide visited the
country around Norfolk, Va,
Clinton, ILL.,, has elected a spiritual
istic fraud named +. II. Adams.
Mrs. Sarah Howe, the Boston bank
swindler, has been at 81. Johns, N. b.
Capt. II. Evans, OF the vessel Gran
dee, skipped out of New York owing
1900.
A Pittsburg man has invented an
automatic fire extinguisher for car
stoves.
Duchess d Auxy has brought suit
70 recover part Of the Soutter estate in
New York.
Children played with matches In q
Clinton, Wis, barn. Barn gone, like
wise one child.
The New York Life Insurance As
sociation is talking Of forming a ma
tional association.
The Pacific railroad tigators
have organized and elected Ex-Gov.
Pattisoa chairman.
The president has appointed Gen.
Albert Ordwsy, to be brigsdier gene
raj In command Of the District OF Col
umbia militia.
NJ. Lutand, editor OF the Journal de
Medicine de Paris. says that Pasteur's
treatment for hydrophobiA 10 not only
useless but dangerous.
Henry Schwsrt and Newton Watt
have been convicted of the murder of
Express Messenger Nichols and sem
fenced to the Illinois prision for life.
The president has appointed Gour-
ney Butler, OF Boston, second con-
troller OF the IT, asury In place of
Judge Maynard. Butler is % years
old.
The Delaware house has passed
high license bill, grading liquor IL
cense from $1,000 for Wilmington,
down to $500 for village and country
taverns.
4 The subcommittee OF the Senate
special committee to investigate Indi-
an traders, composed OF Senators
Platt. Blackburn and Cullom, will
meet in 81. Louis May 5th.
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania, far
m.r, who sent ten dollars 10 q Phila-
delphia address, in answer 10 an ad-
vertisemeDt Of the finest feed cutter in
Americs, received in return q two-dol-
lar set OF false teeth.
Many dwellers on the Pacific coast
are asking that = bounty be put on
seals because they ara 20 terribly de-
structive to salmon. They rob many
of the nets Of every fish, killing them
in mere wAntonpess.
mander-in. Chief Fairchlld is
sued the following order: Posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic are re-
quested not TO comply with any re-
quest of their opinion without the ap-
provsl Of the national department.
William Ward, " no Just died in Sc
dalia, Mo-, at the age OF 94-years, was
the first man 10 build a paper mill
west of the Mississippi river. He came
Of long.lived family, his father dying
at one hundred years aud his grand
father at 40.
Two thousand one hundred and
twenty EIGHT feet per second was the
initial velocity OF the 500 pound pro-
jectile fired twice with 900 pounds Of
powder from the 100 ton gun intended
for the British ship Ben Bow. The
gun survived.
Engineer Ross, of Msttoon, ILL.,, had
the reputation OF being truthful
man until the other day, when he said
that in trying 10 make up lost time he
. ran his locomotive into bird that Was
, fiying in the same direction that his
J train was running.
John Van Syckl, of Peapack N. j.,
claim. 10 be l07 years old. The other
dsy he walked over 10 Schooley's
mountain. q distance Of three or four
miles, and in The tavern, enlivened by
two or three horns OF applejsck, dane
ed jig In good style.
The death, near Vinita, /. T., Of Bill
Pigeon, n notorious Cherokee IDdisn,
saves the United States considerable
money. He was an outlaw. and $500
was offered for his capture, but pneu-
monia carried him of before anyone
could earn the money.
Juno, the huge dromedary. which.
for number of years in the Wood
word Gardens in San Francisco, has
been the chief attraction TO the chill
, dren, who rode her In throDgs, 10 dead.
She was 81 years old, and left an inter-
esting infant nearly year old.
The Chicago Living Church prints
that Father Mcguire said to his con-
gregstion: ION next Sunday the
funeral Of A. b. will be held In this
: church. IshAll preach 4 fuueral on
? the occasion, and the man himself will
!, be bere-the first time In twenty
. years"
. A concert hall pianist in Baberton,
y Cape Colony, recently, on = wager
= PLAYED the piano for twenty-four con-
: secutive hours without breaking hAr-
= mony." During the time he drank q
: little beef tea and smoked an occasion
, al cigar. He finished In good shape,
with lots OF play ing power to spare.
Captain Nathaniel Fish, of the
Cherokee nation, is q fine specimen Of
the centenarian. He is apparently
, not over sixty years old. walks 70 Tab
: lequah from his farm. seven milee
} away, once or twice each week and
back again, and is In sound health In
every way. He has recently cus Two
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